A new survey of Tasmanian Newstart and Youth Allowance recipients finds poverty has forced more than a third to steal food, prompting renewed calls an increase to welfare payments.
A new report written by young people in Tasmania on Youth Allowance or Newstart has found more than a third of respondents have had to steal food just to eat.Newstart and Youth Allowance recipients were interviewed for the Anti-Poverty Week reportHuman Services Minister Roger Jaensch says increasing welfare payments is a matter for the CommonwealthOf the respondents, 36 per cent said they had stolen food because they were hungry.
CEO Danny Sutton said the report clearly showed Newstart and Youth Allowance payments needed to be increased. Representatives of the project presented the final report to Tasmania's Parliament as part of Anti-Poverty Week. "I can see from the evidence that has been brought forward to us today the stresses and the pressures that young people are under," he said."The Government in Canberra needs to be listening to the voices of young people in making any future decisions about those schemes," he said.
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